Elyce
Elyce was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,277 among girls’ names; 830 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Elyce by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Elyce?
#12,277 among girls’ names, 2025
Elyce fell from #11,174 in 2015 to #12,277 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
28 babies in 1987, the peak
Elyce peaked in 1987, when 28 girls were given it, #3,273 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,277 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,980 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,882 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,982 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,939 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,254 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,324 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,953 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,310 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,174 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,783 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,486 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,554 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,325 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,870 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,753 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,237 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,171 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,665 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,481 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,953 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,135 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,541 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,067 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,579 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,987 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,164 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,073 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,342 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,236 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,101 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,742 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,746 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,710 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,464 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,359 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,615 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,273 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,233 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,508 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,019 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,294 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,044 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,603 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,429 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,327 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,135 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,066 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,980 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,699 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,641 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,656 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,156 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,865 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,063 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,248 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,029 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,800 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,435 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,865 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 8 | #4,989 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,840 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,896 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,677 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,274 | 7.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,318 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,226 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,262 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,723 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,972 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,622 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,557 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,760 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,697 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,672 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,310 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,163 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,752 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Elyce a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Elyce has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Elyce: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Elyce, and how old are they?
An estimated 767 Americans named Elyce and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 21 and 57. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 735 people named Elyce (735 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 758 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Elyce?
Elyce is a less common spelling of Elise: SSA has recorded 830 Elyce and 75,252 Elise since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 78,865 babies since 1880, Elyce is the third most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 1,398 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Elyce
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1940-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Neena | 1,775 | |
| Lynnea | 1,762 | |
| Brigid | 6,504 | |
| Caralyn | 1,148 | |
| Estrellita | 1,159 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Elyce and names like it
- Compare Elyce and EliseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sElyce peaked in 1987.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Elyce since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Elyce.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Elyce alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with EMost given first.